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India wrestler Vinesh Phogat said that she'd like a girl from her village to break her Olympic record set in recently-concluded Paris Games 2024. Phogat, who created history by becoming first women wrestler from India to enter a wrestling event final, was disqualified on the morning (Aug 7) of the bout in Paris.

The Supreme Court of India on Sunday (August 18) took suo motu cognisance of the shocking and brutal rape and murder of a trainee female doctor at the RG Kar Hospital premises in Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal state.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will speak at the Kansas City Fed’s Jackson hole economic policy symposium next Friday. Powell is expected to deliver a keynote address on the financial outlook on August 23 at the three-day seminar.

According to the Ukrainian air force on Sunday, Ukrainian troops have attacked another bridge in the Kursk region of Russia in an effort to impede Moscow's military activities there. "Minus one more bridge. The Air Force aviation continues to deprive the enemy of logistical capabilities with precision air strikes," Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk said, publishing a video of the attack.

The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza reported a grim milestone on Sunday (Aug 18). It has claimed that the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas has claimed the lives of at least 40,099 people in the Gaza Strip.

Sri Lanka's Presidential elections, the first after the country plunged into an unprecedented economic crisis in 2022, are peculiar in more ways than one. Watch in for details|

The CBI is monitoring the phone conversations and text messages of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital's former principal, Sandip Ghosh, to see if the rape and murder of the Postgraduate trainee doctor was classified as 'suicide' on his orders. Watch to know more!

Colleagues of a Kolkata trainee doctor, who was sexually assaulted and murdered earlier this month, have said that she paid the price for knowing the alleged murky activities that certain higher-ups in the hospital were engaged in.

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) intelligence chiefs knew about Hamas' plans to conduct the October 7 attacks, more than a year in advance but never told the senior military and political leaders about it, a report in The Times of Israel, citing Channel 12 has claimed.

Delta Air Lines said on Friday (Aug 16) that it was reviewing how a man who allegedly followed a family around the terminal boarded the family’s plane earlier this month without a ticket for the flight.

Ukraine announced on Sunday that it had targeted a second crucial bridge in Russia's Kursk region, aiming to disrupt Moscow's supply lines as Kyiv's ongoing incursion into Russian territory continued into its second week.

A commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force was killed in a drone strike in southern Lebanon earlier today, the IDF says. Watch to know more!

There have been growing demands for capital punishment for the accused Sanjoy Roy was arrested on the 10th of August and is currently in 14-day police custody as we speak. Roy a Civic police volunteer worked with the police welfare cell and was assigned to the police outpost at the Kolkata-based Medical College. Keep watching to know more.

The CBI is monitoring the phone conversations and text messages of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital's former principal, Sandip Ghosh, to see if the rape and murder of the Postgraduate trainee doctor was classified as 'suicide' on his orders. Watch to know more!

The Indian Medical Association, which is the largest organisation of medical staff, has appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to come up with a central law to check violence against Health Care Professionals in India and also to declare hospitals as safe zones with compulsory security entitlements. Watch to know more!

The Supreme Court of India has taken suo motu cognizance of the rape and murder of a female doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.

World number ones Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek both turned around losing situations on Saturday to move into the semi-finals of the ATP and WTA Cincinnati Open.

According to the Ukrainian air force on Sunday, Ukrainian troops have attacked another bridge in the Kursk region of Russia in an effort to impede Moscow's military activities there. "Minus one more bridge. The Air Force aviation continues to deprive the enemy of logistical capabilities with precision air strikes," Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk said, publishing a video of the attack.

China has lodged a diplomatic protest against the “illegal anchoring” of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) ship BRP Teresa Magbanua at the Escoda (Sabina) Shoal as it “seriously infringes on China’s sovereignty.”